Here at TechNorms, we rock a variety of different devices. Some of us enjoy iPads, others the classic Galaxy S II, and our editor has a nice iPhone. It’s one of the perks of being a technology journalist, really. You can always justify a shiny new device as being a “work purchase.” However, we still hang onto some older stuff. We still have an original HTC Evo 4G, an Android phone for Sprint that is decidedly more dated ...

We at TechNorms have written about Minecraft before, and usually in a positive tone. It’s a fun game. You wander around the wilderness, building shelters or whatever you want really while trying to survive against everything that goes bump in the night. Minecraft is all about whatever you want to make it. That DIY spirit even includes the graphics. Markus “Notch” Persson, the developer, was nice enough to ...